Signature’s Safe Summer Show showcased talented performers and the social issues that they wanted to highlight through dance.
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Young artists’ paintings brighten Rays of Sunshine garden
ArtWorks for Milwaukee interns worked with members of the Franklin Heights neighborhood to create paintings for the Rays of Sunshine garden at 24th and Keefe Ave.
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Slam poetry champs gear up for national competition
Winners of the Teen State Slam Finals for Wisconsin are writing new poems for the national slam poetry finals in Atlanta next month.
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Dragon springs from Greenfield school sculpture garden
A partnership between artists and biologists resulted in a year of lessons for 3rd-5th graders and a piece of public art in front of Greenfield Bilingual School.
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Initiative to rebuild distressed city playgrounds underway
Work on MKE Plays, an initiative to rebuild 12 of the city’s most run-down playgrounds, is under way.
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Dance Fuzion performance showcases new arts program
Two Milwaukee Boys & Girls Clubs are piloting high-level arts programming taught by “art mentors.”
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Brothers bring art of community building to Bronzeville
Vedale and Darren Hill have opened an art studio in Bronzeville that offers free afterschool and summer art programs for neighborhood children.
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Mobile greenhouse helps students embrace agriculture, entrepreneurship
Teachers, parents and students at Milwaukee Environmental Sciences celebrated the debut of a mobile greenhouse, which was made possible through an Arts @ Large initiative with various community partners.
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PeppNation teaches city youth skills needed for college through rugby, other sports
Brandon Culpepper is using his mentoring program, PeppNation, to bring nontraditional sports to Milwaukee youth while teaching them skills such as teamwork and discipline. The program also helps bridge divides between communities.
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MKE Plays aims to reconstruct 12 deteriorated playgrounds throughout city
The MKE PLAYS initiative plans to create 12 innovative, resident-designed playgrounds in some of the poorest neighborhoods of the city.